ADI Summer Newsletter #1
Kathy Sun
Hello ADI!
I trust you're all rocking this summer. Here's a couple of events and opportunities! Newsletter during the summer aren't going to be weekly but we'll let you know when we hear about anything cool and interesting.
Events and Opportunities:
1. Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarships Deadline, Tuesday, 5/31
2. Hack4Education Hackathon, Saturday and Sunday, 6/11 to 6/12
3. Academyx Bootcamp
4. Game Hack Day
5. ADI Jobs Group
1. Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarships Deadline
Tuesday, 5/31, Apply Online Here.
The 2011 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will take place November 9-12 in Portland, Oregon. The conference is an excellent opportunity for students to build their technical network, expand their knowledge through both technical and career sessions, and attend presentations by industry leaders. Scholarships cover a combination of conference registration (which includes most meals), lodging, and a fixed amount of travel reimbursement funds.
Saturday, June 11th, at 9:00am to Sunday, June 2th, at 3:30pm, at Mendeley HQ, 7 West 22nd St., 9th Fl, NY 10010
Mendeley is hosting a Hackathon on June 11-12, as part of Internet Week NY. The purpose of Hack4Knowledge (http://mnd.ly/hck4knw) is to encourage to thinking beyond the consumer internet. Hack on whatever you want as long as it's related to education and academia. But if you use the Mendeley API, submissions will be judged by Juan Enriquez (MD, Excel Venture Management), Tim O'Reilly (Founder, O'Reilly Media), James Powell (CTO, Thomson Reuters), John Wilbanks (VP Science, Creative Commons) and Werner Vogels (CTO, Amazon) for a chance to win $10,001.
Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/) is a reference manager and social network for academics, scientists and researchers. We have been named tech start-up "most likely to change the world for the better" by the Guardian Activate 2010 as well as best "Best Education Start-Up" at the Telegraph 100 Awards 2011.
3. AcademyX Bootcamp is coming to NYC
AcademyX (one of the best programming training companies in the valley) is coming to NYC this summer! They're teaching both a Basic Web Development Course and a Ruby on Rails Bootcamp. A friend of mine participated in one of their programs in the valley and said it was amazing. By the end of the bootcamp, he was building applications that he never would have dreamed of. No experience is necessary for the Basic Web Development Course, which is the only pre-requisite for the Ruby on Rails Bootcamp (pre-requisite only applies if you have no web development experience).
Not only is AcademyX coming this summer, they're also offering us amazing discounts! The workshops, which normally go for $1000-1500 each, are being offered for $400-540.
Register by June 10th! Limited spots available so sign up ASAP!
Details
1st Class: Web Development Course (Intro to Programming using HTML & JavaScript)
Duration: 3-days (7-8 hour days)
Dates: Friday, June 17th to Sunday, June 19th (very tentative)
Location: NYU classroom TBD
Price for Students: $400 – register
Price for Non-Students: $440 – register
Description:
Learn Programming Basics using HTML and Javascript. (This is a prerequisite or review course for learning Ruby on Rails. Students need to know how to program, and how to code using HTML or Javascript. These programs are needed in order to do the "cool" things related to Ruby on Rails)
2nd Class: Ruby & Ruby-On-Rails course
Duration: 4-days (7-8 hour days)
Dates: Friday, June 24th to Monday, June 27th (very tentative)
Location: NYU classroom TBD
Price for Students: $450 – register: http://www.academyx.com/sales?cls=0cst3&dte=6-24+to+27
Price for Non-Students: $540 – register: http://www.academyx.com/sales?cls=0cst4&dte=6-24+to+27
Description:
This is the backend course that will teach student how to code in Ruby and Ruby-On-Rails. Students will learn how to create a web site and connect it to a database. Then they will enhance their web site using the tools (HTML & JavaScript) they learned from the 1st course (Web Development).
4. Game Hack Day
Saturday June 25th to Sunday June 26th at General Assembly
Game Hack Day invites to enjoy a weekend of game hacking, software, hardware, art and the web. Come build the future of gaming.
Sign Up: http://gamehackday.org
5. ADI Job Group
ADI is often contacted with job openings. If you want to hear about there, please sign up here.